Written by Don Byrd
Rutherford County, Tennessee has seen its share of church-state controversies. Most notably, its Murfreesboro mosque received national attention after a court battle determined its right to be constructed. Back in 2006, an ACLU lawsuit secured the removal of the Ten Commandments from the county courthouse. Now, the sheriff of Rutherford County seems poised to set off another dispute, after posting the Ten Commandments at the county jail.
The Tennessean has more:
Sheriff Robert Arnold decided to hang the Ten Commandments in the jail lobby despite a court order banning the Rutherford County Commission from doing the same at the County Courthouse.
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“Those are documents this country was founded on,” Arnold said during an interview at his office. “Those are documents that all laws are derived from in this country.”
As for the court ruling that such a display in the courthouse violated the First Amendment?
“That was before me,” Arnold said. “I really don’t know all the details about that.”
Something tells me we will hear more from this story.
